President Donald Trump’s executive order on religious freedom issued in early June lays out a strategy for expanding U.S. support for international religious freedom that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has been urging, said the chair of the commission.
Advocates call order advancing religious freedom globally a needed action
State Department report on religious persecution welcomed
Nine nations were redesignated as “countries of particular concern” for carrying out or tolerating “systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom.”